Grasmere Primary School London N16

Please come along and enjoy our International Evening on Wednesday 21 October from 6.30 – 8.00pm and enjoy a fantastic evening of food and entertainment from around the world.

The event is FREE.

All we ask is that you bring along an “international” dish of your choice to add to the buffet.

Please avoid food with nuts or pork and label beef, chicken, seafood or fish.

The event will kick off with the children performing a range of songs from around the world and welcomes in community languages followed by a buffet of international food.

The Jumble Sale will take place from 10.30 – 12.30 on Saturday 9 May. Help is required to set up the event on the afternoon of Friday 8 May and on the day manning stalls and assisting with clearing away at the end. Donations of items can be dropped off in the Medical Room on Friday 8 May.

If you wish to display posters for the Jumble Sale in your home windows copies are available in the FROGS box outside the school office.

FROGS are requesting donations from each class of home baked items for the weekly Cake Sales. Funds raised will be used to purchase specific equipment or subsidise the cost of visits for classes. Parent volunteers to assist setting up and selling the produce would be warmly welcomed.

The Next FROGS meeting will be on Friday 7 November at 9.15am. The Jumble Sale will take place on Saturday 15 November and Christmas Fair on Friday 12 December.

The next meeting of FROGS will be held on Wednesday 16th January at 8.00pm. The meeting will be held in the new Community Room (access from 92 Albion Road). FROGS would particularly welcome new parents and carers to attend to discuss future fund raising and social activities.
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The Winter Fair will take place on Friday 7th December at 3.30pm in the school hall. Everyone welcome!

Raffle Tickets and Seasons Greetings Cards

Raffle Tickets have been send home today with instructions how to sell. Please return unsold tickets or/and ticket stubs and monies collected to the school office.

Seasons Greetings cards alongside raffle tickets will be sold at the end of each day by the FROGS team.

The Jumble Sale will take place on Saturday 10th November between 10.30am and 12.30pm. All donations of items would be appreciated on Friday 9th November and placed in the Medical Room. A good chance to clear out your old bric-a-brac, clothes, linen, shoes etc…. Please remember to bring cakes, biscuits and home baked items on the day to sell.

Volunteers to assist with setting up of stalls on the afternoon of Friday 9th or help on the day would be appreciated as well.

Many thanks for contributions and more importantly – please come along on the day!

After a delightful Tea and biscuits FROGS looks forward to a new year ahead. Get involved in your child’s school. Ask not what FROGS can do for your child ask what you can do for FROGS. Here are the minutes of the AGM
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Congratulations to FROGS for organizing such a successful Summer Fair last week. A total of over £900 was raised. Many thanks to everyone for their efforts planning, setting up, running stalls and clearing away afterwards.
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FROGS will be holding their Autumn Jumble Sale on Saturday 14th October. Donations of items will be gratefully received and can be left in the Medical Room on Friday 13th. FROGS are looking for volunteers to help set up stalls on the Friday afternoon, and assist on the day with the sale and clearing up of unsold items.
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FROGS AGM is next week on Wednesday (20 September) at 8pm. It will be in the school hall. Please do come along and offer your support and find out what we do. Is there something that you can offer – perhaps taking responsibility for a specific task or even just a few hours on an event. We hope to set up a management team so that the Chair and Secretary roles can be more evenly shared out.

FROGS is parent/carer run and without your help and support, the school would lose out on social and fun events, like the Summer and Christmas Fair. FROGS also raises vital funds for the school. We have all kinds of plans to discuss next week in a friendly and welcoming environment. So do make time to come to this meeting if you can.

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Welcome back everybody. We hope you all had a lovely summer holiday.

FROGS must start planning for the events this Autumn. We firstly need to hold our AGM to set out a structure of volunteers. The AGM will be on 20 September in the Hall at 8pm (drinks provided).

Rather than have a chair and secretary we would like to have a management team, this way we hope to involve more parents but still be able to draw on the skills and experience of existing FROGS volunteers. It would be a way of sharing responsibilities and encouraging new and different parents and carers to join us.

Please put the date in your diaries and better still come along. Everyone who comes will be most welcome.

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Some up and coming events organised by FROGS for you diary

Many thanks to all the children who entered our competition to design our annual Seasons Greetings Card.

Our overall winner was Elizabeth Olabode with KS1 and KS2 runners up being Millie Howard and Zanna Lotto.

The winning design will be on sale shortly, and a display of entries will be in the lower corridor.

Christmas Cards are on sale in the playground after school and in the office at 9.00 -9.30 and 3.30 - 5.00
Prices are £2.50 per pack or £4.00 for two.

The card is sponsored again, most kindly, by Savills Estate Agents in Stoke Newington Church Street

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Christmas Cards are on sale in the playground after school and in the office at 9.00 –9.30 and 3.30 – 5.00
Prices are £2.50 per pack or £4.00 for two.

Help a Christmas Child

Shoe box sized boxes for children in need Can be dropped off at Zoomaround from now until the Christmas break. Please wrap the boxes brightly and mark clearly Boy / Girl and age group. Things that can be included are small games, toiletry articles, hats,gloves,combs etc.

Events, news and dates for your diary.

The minutes from the last meeting are available from school and on the website.

The Winter Fair is to be known as the Christmas Fair and it will be held on 9th December at 3.30pm. Do come along and support it. Please be ready to offer up baking services and start looking out for tombola prizes.

We are planning carol singing around the local area with the infant and junior choirs from 6pm on 19th December. Money raised will be divided between FROGS and a nominated charity. Letters to follow.

The Christmas cards look wonderful and will be on sale from next week in the playground. The winter raffle tickets will shortly be on sale and will be coming home in book bags.

Hackney Festival Support are no longer renting out Lucky Dip or Tombolas. Does anyone know where we could rent or buy either of these items, or of anyone who could make one?

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Many thanks to all the children who entered our competition to design our annual Seasons Greetings Card.

Our overall winner was Elizabeth Olabode with KS1 and KS2 runners up being Millie Howard and Zanna Lotto.

The winning design will be on sale shortly, and a display of entries will be in the lower corridor.

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The Jumble Sale will be held on Saturday 12th November between 10.30 – 12.30 in the school hall.
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Many thanks for everyone who donated and purchased goods from the last 2 cake sales. The Cake Sale on 21st October raised £70.00. The Halloween Sale on Monday raised £75.00 which for the Disaster Emergency Committee.

Jumble Sale Saturday 12th November– Contributions can be brought into school on Friday 11th November and left in the Medical Room.

Frogs will be making preserves for the Winter Fair in December and are in need of small jam jars. Please pass these onto Mark, Ian or any member of the Frogs team.

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There is a FROGS meeting after assembly on Friday 4th. We will be discussing the coming Winter Fair and lots of other issues. Please come along to the Staff Room and have a cup of coffee. The agenda is available HERE.

Many thanks, Ruth

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